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Orange County Indexed

Official appointed

July 1754 · Orange County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions

The record listed appointments of the county’s justices.

Kind of business
Official appointed
Court
July 1754 term
Justices
James Watson; Alexander Mebane; James Dickey; John Gray; Lawrence Banckson; Mark Morgan; John Patterson; Andrew Mitchel; John Pitman; James Allison; Marmaduke Kimbrough; James Dickey; Josias Dixon; Joseph Boggs; John Pryor; John Gordon; Lawrence Thompson

Names and places are given as the source writes them. This record has not been checked against the original minute book.

Where to find it

  • Folio and page 19-37
  • Published abstract: Ruth Herndon Shields, Abstracts of the Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of Orange County, 1752–1766, page 11
  • Original: State Archives of North Carolina, Orange County court minutes (CR.073.301).
  • Microfilm at the Orange County Public Library, Wall Local History Collection: reel 30001, “County Court Minutes, 1752–1766” (State Archives film).
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